Flying Iguana Taqueria & Tequila Bar — Restaurant in Neptune Beach

Street parking here will be impossible to use the valet if available and then validate it. once we validated it and decided to go elsewhere they were cool and just gave our keys back and told us where the car was so we kept our parking spot, but that is the parking people the same valet can be validated to several restaurants.

This is definitely a more upscale looking Mexican place where u will pay about 4 to 6 dollar a taco. And 9 dollar drinks.

We sat at the bar and they have some awesome craft drinks, but the reason why we came in was because we were waiting for another restaurants table and there was a sign outside for happy hour and once we came in it was over. So we had to drink on regular prices even tough they failed to take the bait sign out of customers sight. That felt like I was cheated a bit.

BRAZILIANS DO IT BETTER - pretty nice and tangy drink with blueberries yummy and sweet at the same time.

RABBITS FOOT- the best drink I had here so far. The mezcal is smokey and blends well with the citrus I have never tasted a smoked mezcal I am impressed, it was super new to try a smoked flavored drink and it worked very well.

JUNKYARD TACO- even tough I am not a huge fan of chicken nor potatoes, this taco has me wanting more. The sweet corn the sauce and the meat blended well together and it was perfect! I would definitely recommend this taco, comes in a soft flour shell.

SCALOP TACO- pretty impressed. The flavor of the scallops was pretty nice and the soft shell taco brought it all together. The scalols were nicely seasoned and crashed in runway with the pickled cabbage. It is a good taco.

SOUR CREAM- YES I HAD TO PAY FOR AN SMALL SIDE OF SOUR CREAM. SO SMALL IT WAS NOT EVEN A DOLLAR WORTH IN VALUE AND I PAID $ 1 see pic, why pay for a side of sour cream?? it was so small and eating the taco it fell all over the bar, I was not happy I feel like they were a bit too much charging for this.

COCONUT FLAN- Smallest 9 dollar flan ever, event tough it was a pretty tasty flan, with black berries and blueberries, sauces and a cute and tasty sugar cookie perfect on the sweet amount and the coconut taste was on point I think that the serving was too small for the price.

yes so, the only reason why I gave 4 stars is cause my friends really liked here cause if it was for I only, I would give them 3 stars. I think that the food and drinks were good, the decor was nice, but the service was ok and normal for sitting at a restaurant bar, nothing about the service stood out to me and the fact that the happy hour was over and the sign was still bating people in, the side of condiments for things ordered were being charged when to even a complementary side came with the plate, and the fact that the dessert was so small and expensive, makes me think that this place has a bit of rethinking to do. At least in my opinion I was not 100% ok with the things I saw and experienced.

I would not tell you not to go here, but I definitely would not be the one to tell my friends that we...

The Flying Iguana Order: 2 Blackened Shrimp tacos, 2 Fish (Mahi) tacos, 1 Carnitas taco, 1 Junkyard (chicken and potato) taco, Churros as a desert Price: $34 Pros: Tacos were awesome, seafood in the tacos was fresh and delicious, great outside seating, waitstaff was attentive and friendly Cons: Just a tad salty

Thoughts: I love tacos, probably my favorite type of food (very closely tied with pizza). So when someone recommended this place for the tacos, it immediately went on the "to try" list. We finally got around to trying it and we were not disappointed. This will now definitely be one of my go-to places for upscale tacos. I say upscale because it seems like their more "simple" or common tacos lacked the same amount of flavor as their more unique, or seafood options. The shrimp and fish in the tacos was incredibly fresh and particularly delicious. The blackened fish taco with cabbage, mango chunks, and sauce was probably my favorite and the server said that they could do it with fish in it as well. I also really liked that they had so much outside seating, this is the beach after all so why wouldn't you want to sit outside. My only really negative is that all their food seemed just slightly on the salty side. Now maybe most people wouldn't notice but I don't salt anything so I'm a little more sensitive to salty food. Other than that though they really nailed their seafood tacos.

It did look like their guacamole was awesome but as my wife didn't like avocados I couldn't bring myself to spend $9.50 on a dish she we wouldn't share but if you have someone to share it with I would definitely give it a shot. We did get their churros as a desert; I've actually never had churros other those disgusting fried dough things from Taco Bell so I didn't know quite what to expect, and they were really good. The dish was actually a little big for just two people; there were 7 rather large churros with chocolate dipping sauce on the side. The dough wasn't overly dry, while still not being doughy in the middle and the chocolate sauce was not too sweet and chalky, like a lot of chocolate sauces tend to be. I probably wouldn't order this with just two people in the future due to the size but if you had 4 to split it with it would be perfect.

This is a great place to get tacos with a little more flare than you average "street taco" place. I'll definitely be coming back for more...

Dear Flying,

It's been a good run but this just isn't working out anymore. Don't worry, it's you, not me.

Last night we ate dinner at Flying for, what will probably be, the last time. Our server dropped our basket of chips at the table and ran. When she returned ten minutes later we asked her for the salsa. Her response was, "we are now charging $3.50 for salsa, is that ok?"

No! Thats is not ok. We have always thought the prices at flying were a tad steep for what it is, but the free chips/salsa and delish tacos always helped soften the blow. We had already ordered queso prior to knowing about the salsa situation, so we declined the salsa and then re-opened their shiny, new, leather bound menu to review any other sneaky price gouging. I typically order the garden marg and queso, both of which increased $2, but other than their taco menu losing some tried and trues, did not notice price hikes on the tacos.

But wait...theres more! We get our bill: 5 tacos, split the chorizo queso with our friends, 2 garden margs and 2 double titos/coke all coming in at the exorbitant total of $111?!?!?! What is happening right now?!?!?! Toto, I don't think we are in Jax Beach anymore.

We reviewed the tab more closely. $18 for a double titos and coke? Surely, this must be an error. After asking our server, she said she thought they increased the ounces, so instead of a double being three ounces, it's now four. Side note, anytime staff have been trained to school the customer on ounces I simply just cannot (please refer to my review on the Refinery). Nope, our server asked the bar, still only 3 ounces in their "double." Absolute highway robbery.

Let me tell you a little secret, Pete's has been around for nearly a century, and it's not because they measure 1.5 ounces per pour. Know your audience, but even more importantly, know your competition. This is Jax Bch (I know I know, Neptune, but you get it) not Miami.

I didn't realize upgrading to leather menus was a free ticket to entitlement. Get off your high horse and come on back down to reality. Until then, don't bother...